A severe, difficult, or afflictive, affair: (S, K:) plural هَنَابِثُ: the ن is an augmentative letter. (TA.) The plural also signifies calamities: and confused affairs and news. (TA.)
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Also, Confusion in speech, or, in what is said: (S, K:) [probably an inf. n, of which the verb is هَنْبَثَ].